Definition of Overflooding

1. overflood [v] - See also: overflood

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overflooding

overfished
overfishes
overfishing
overfit
overfitting
overflew
overflies
overflight
overflights
overfloat
overfloated
overfloating
overfloats
overflood
overflooded
overflooding (current term)
overfloods
overflourish
overflourished
overflourishes
overflourishing
overflow
overflow hole
overflow holes
overflow incontinence
overflow pool
overflow wave
overflowed
overfloweth
overflowing

Literary usage of Overflooding

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Adam Bede by George Eliot (1893)
"She leaned forward on her elbows, and looked into those dark overflooding eyes and at that quivering mouth, and saw how the tears came thicker and thicker, ..."

2. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1893)
"She leaned forward on her elbows, and looked into those dark overflooding eyes and at that quivering mouth, and saw how the tears came thicker and thicker, ..."

3. The Contemporary Review (1891)
"... by means of which the transfer of population could be made without the slightest danger of overflooding her labour market, and with no prospect but one ..."

4. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1897)
"But what other woman could have done it! She led superbly. If an Irishman was present, she kept him from overflooding, managed to ..."

5. A Text-book of Geology for Use in Universities: Colleges, Schools of Science by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1920)
"... as previously described, includes basins more or less enclosed by land, which the overflooding of the ocean has filled with salt water. ..."

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